Tag Archives: democrats

Newsweek – Estimates Say Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge

Newsweek reports on the idea that if only Repub­li­cans were in charge would things be better.

The Rage Is Not About Health Care – NYTimes.com

Frank Rich on the recent health care bill pas­sage and the sim­i­lar­ity between that and other bills that changed society.

Senator Bunning’s Universe – NYTimes.com

Krug­man tak­ing it old school at the state of Amer­i­can politics.

Democrats May Drop Medicare Expansion

Well ok then to quote Marco who sums it up bet­ter that I ever could. Democ­rats (in power): We want to pass this bill that makes a lot of sense. It would help a lot of peo­ple and it’s sup­ported by the major­ity of the pop­u­la­tion. Repub­li­cans: No. You need to com­pro­mise. Democ­rats: OK. Well, I

Calling Something Factual, Doesn’t Make It Magically Factual

Specif­i­cally, this is another time in which I call out Repub­li­cans for their lack of atten­tion to basic logic and under­stand­ing of facts. I received an email tonight from the RNC regard­ing Obama, Con­gress and the orga­ni­za­tion ACORN. In this email the GOP makes the claim that “It seems the Obama Admin­is­tra­tion has plans to

Abortion Should Be Rare

Fem­i­nist­ing has a post up today regard­ing abor­tion and the Democ­rats new plat­form (PDF warn­ing) for the 2008 elec­tion. The whole of the arti­cle essen­tially focuses on how “safe, legal and rare” has become “safe and legal”. My main area of con­cern is as fol­lows: The Demo­c­ra­tic Party strongly and unequiv­o­cally sup­ports Roe v. Wade